Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
OSCAR WILDEDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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